Core Values…The Glue of Team Success
Nothing replaces hard work. Potential talent will always be useless, coach Knolls would say, “Potential aren’t worth a damn.” Coach Knoll was right; however before I played at Pittsburgh I understood this in college. Many employees are selected for their potential, yet they lack the willingness to work hard. Team members who lack a work ethic will be flushed out by a core value driven team.
Are you a Transformational Leader?
By formal or informal appointment, leaders are expected to have relational wisdom. The 50-75% of leaders who failed, they failed not because of lack of competence, but who they were.
The Shady Side of Leaders
Leaders fail because of “Who they are” more than what they know. More than any factors, the leader’s character was the major factor to derailment. Character is an intangible variable, also one that is hard to define. Self-awareness, relationship intelligence, social competence, and authenticity are some traits of a sound character.
How to build a Powerhouse Team
Your vision must have some mutual abstraction for other people. Unless you intend on working by yourself, you need team members and so you need a contagious vision. One where others benefit from the purpose of being on the team, in other words, “Show them the Greatness,” and how beneficial it is to their well-being.
Is Your Team Inspired?
The inspirational leaders resonates an, “We can do anything attitude,” and team members not only believe it, they but in to it! This commanding attraction can occur even when the leader is foreign to the team…
When a Leader is to Blame.
You are what you do. Management is a vital component to all successful ventures taken on by groups. Groups must possess discipline; I use former Indiana’s head coach Bobby Knight’s definitions of discipline when operating in a group, “Discipline is during what’s right and doing it that way ever time.” Undisciplined groups are a reflection of their leaders. You cannot manage a circus disguise as a group.
Can I play in the leadership sandbox?
Albert Einstein remarked that “the significant problems that we have cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness that created them,” our 21st century will not be altered with antiquated tools in the sandbox. The paradigm of the lone leader guiding followers into a new frame of thought is creatively stillborn.
Was Tiger Woods a leader?
Tiger is a golfer, MJ was a basketball player, President Obama is a politician, and Glenn Beck, a television host, if you look for meaning in them that is unfortunate. You will repeat the grade of hero-obsession in the school of life more than once.
Tiger is exactly who you are…that’s what hurts most.
5 Essential Signs of Ineffective Leadership…
From Wall Street to a neighborhood community groups poor leadership is recognizable from a distance. Back-biting, poor-performance, lack of values and unclear purpose/s signals discontent and apathy. I deal must with volunteer, educational and social groups in working with building successful leadership structure. Within these small groups I believe leadership can be examined more intensely … Read more
25 Things Leadership is not…
The disorganization which surrounds a consensus definition has creates the perfect storm for fictitious shenanigans. Each definition is considered as good as the next, and so we labor in deciding which best suit our personal and organization growth like a suit or dress.
